Question

I have a simple thing I’m trying to solve.

I have a date stored in a table, and I’m comparing it to a php generated date.

ie:

if($row['start_date'] < date("Y-m-d")) {

    // table stored date larger than php date
    echo 'hi';

}  else {

    // php date larger than table stored date
    echo 'bye';

}

This seems ok to me, but

if $row['start_date'] === '2011-09-13' AND date("Y-m-d") === '2011-09-15'.

I end up with:

hi

This could be one of those twilight moments where I think left is right and a greater than symbol is actually a less than. So please help me – why doesn’t this work?

Answer 1

If $row['start_date'] = '2011-09-13' and date("Y-m-d") = '2011-09-15', then your PHP date is greater than the row’s date and thus the if is true, after all '2011-09-13' is “smaller (<)” than '2011-09-15'. Flip your < to > and you’ll be fine.

if($row['start_date'] > date("Y-m-d")) {

    // table stored date larger than php date
    echo 'hi';

}  else {

    // php date larger than table stored date
    echo 'bye';

}